High-water mark
669.1088
career-best overall
92.9% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 669.1088 at Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship — 92.9% of a perfect 720.
- Master
- 2015-06-19
Hickory & Spice
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1497
peak 1501 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2015-03-27
latest 2015-06-19
Grand champs
0
0 reserve
Category wins
1
1 podiums
Overall top-10s
0
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 66%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
50%
contests with a top-10 call
Strongest meat
Brisket
avg 169.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.69)
Road miles
146
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 73 mi
Master avg
660.78 / 720
2 Master contests · 0 GCs
Storylines (1 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Hickory & Spice has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 125 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#3321 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1502
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3323 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1497
No shared contest yet.
They turned up 6 years after Hickory & Spice did, first appearing in 2021.
⚔ Head-to-head#3301 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1506
No shared contest yet.
Level with Hickory & Spice on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#3313 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1505
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#3306 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 17%
- Peak
- 1500
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Hickory & Spice's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head#3314 of the rated field
- Contests
- 6
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 50%
- Peak
- 1497
No shared contest yet.
6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Hickory & Spice's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 168.5828 | 165.6800 | 167.13 | top 58% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 159.9772 | 159.3944 | 159.69 | top 87% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 164.5484 | 163.4172 | 163.98 | top 66% |
| Brisket | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 177.7144 | 162.2400 | 169.98 | top 30% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
The story so far (12 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.2 yrs
2015-03-27 → 2015-06-19
Busiest season
2015
2 contests
Cooks most in
CA
2 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 0 wins · 0 calls
Strongest meat
Brisket
averages 169.98 · weakest Pork Ribs (159.69)
Walk rate
50%
a top-10 call in 1 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
0%
0 of 2 contests
Master average
660.78
out of 720 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
44
18–34 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
146
2 mapped stops · furthest 73 mi
Power rating
1497
peak 1501 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2015
- First tracked contest Havasu Landing CA (JUDGES LIST IS FULL)
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score652.4456 Havasu Landing CA (JUDGES LIST IS FULL)
- First call Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship
- First category win (Brisket) Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship
- Career-best overall score669.1088 Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship
- Career-best single call (Brisket)177.7144 Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship
- Most recent contest Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 50% | top 66% | 92.9% | 91.8% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-19 | Stagecoach Days 1st Annual State BBQ Championship Banning, CA | 22 / 29 (669.1088) | 20 (168.5828) | 27 (159.3944) | 22 (163.4172) | 1 (177.7144) |
| 2015-03-27 | Havasu Landing CA (JUDGES LIST IS FULL) Havasu Landing, CA | 14 / 25 (652.4456) | 12 (165.6800) | 20 (159.9772) | 14 (164.5484) | 14 (162.2400) |